How To Install libmfx-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmfx-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmfx-dev
libmfx-dev is:
Intel® Media SDK provides an API to access hardware-accelerated video decode, encode and filtering on Intel® platforms with integrated graphics.
Supported video encoders: HEVC, AVC, MPEG-2, JPEG Supported Video decoders: HEVC, AVC, VP8, MPEG-2, VC1, JPEG Supported video pre-processing filters: Color Conversion, Deinterlace, Denoise, Resize, Rotate, Composition
This package contains files needed for development.
There are three methods to install libmfx-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmfx-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmfx-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmfx-dev
Install libmfx-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmfx-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmfx-dev
Install libmfx-dev Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libmfx-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmfx-dev
How To Uninstall libmfx-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmfx-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmfx-dev
Uninstall libmfx-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmfx-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmfx-dev
Remove libmfx-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmfx-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmfx-dev
Remove libmfx-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmfx-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmfx-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmfx-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.